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Riding on Duke's Train by Mick Carlon
(January 2012) -- 2010 Leapfrog Fiction Contest winner, children's fiction
Nine-year-old Danny stows away on a Georgia train—the train of Duke Ellington. Through Danny's eyes, we meet some of America's finest musicians as he accompanies them on their 1939 European tour, when the train was briefly held in Nazi Germany. Says Nat Hentoff, "I knew Duke Ellington for 25 years. The Ellington in this book is the man I knew."
"Duke used to say that the individual sound of a musician revealed his soul. Mick Carlon is a 'soul' storyteller."
--Nat Hentoff
"A ripping good yarn that plunges the reader into the world of Duke Ellington and the Europe and America of 1939." --Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz
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The Notebook of Leonardo
A Novel by B.B. Wurge
"Wurge explains the fantastic with restraint...gently instructs young readers not to jump to conclusions based on appearances--the smartest person you might ever meet could be an oversized, hairy, orange primate."
--New York Journal of Books |
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Squiggle
A Novel by B.B. Wurge
“Lively and entertaining…. An unpredictable story with a wacky sense of humor.”
--Martha Zschock, author of Journey Around Cape Cod |
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Billy and the Birdfrogs
A Novel by B.B. Wurge
"...a book that survives by the sheer weight of its own insane internal logic...There's definately an element of Dahl's fondness for weirdness in this pup. For those funny-book junkies out there, Billy fulfills a need. Downright weird, and that's a-okay with me. It's worth a gander."
--School Library Journal |
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Saving Santa's Seals
by T.M. Murphy
When 8-year-old Ryder asks Santa to help his Uncle Ted overcome writer's block and create another amazing story, he cannot know that they'll both be getting the best present ever--a wild adventure. But is it real, or just a wonderful Christmas dream?
"A fresh addition to the Christmas title list. Murphy is in tune with his 8-year-old self, able to capture the excitement, adventure, and feelings of childhood and the magic of Christmas. His tale of twists and turns, actions and dilemmas, is told as if he'd lived it...Perhaps he did!" --Martha Zschock, author of Journey Around Cape Cod
October 2009 |
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